Harriet’s Halloween Candy

Today we read Harriet’s Halloween Candy by Nancy Carlson.  It is about a story about a girl that goes trick-or-treating and learns to share her treats. Harriet gets a lot of candy and she spends a lot time sorting it.  Her mom ask her to share some with her brother and doesn’t want to.  She tries to eat all the candy but ends up with a tummy ache. She then learns how important it is to share.  In our room we then got a bag of candy and spent a lot of time sorting it into attributes.  Ask us to show you and we will share a piece with you.   

Halloween Party

We had a lot of fun at our Halloween party!  Thanks to all the parents who helped out with it. 

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Nocturnal Animals

We finished our nocturnal animals unit today.  We spent the last week learning about all the different nocturnal animals. We read many books but our favorite was Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.  We also wrote what we have learned about bats.  Check out our writing in the hall when you stop by. 

Spider Presentation

We were lucky enough to have a presentation about spiders.  Levi is studying to be an entomologist and knows a lot about spiders. He taught us a few things and even showed us some live spiders.  The jumping spider was our favorite!  Thank you to Levi and his sister Chantel for teaching us about spiders.

Halloween Week

This week we have a variety of Halloween activities. We read a few stories that focus on sequencing. One was I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.  This then led us to read several spin off such as:  I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro and There Was an Old Monster by Rebecca, Adriana & Ed Emberly.  The kids loved these. We also read and sequenced Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman.  At centers this week we worked more on ordering numbers.  First the kids did each color of candy corn then the kids had to do all the candy corn.  This center was very challenging.  We also made our own monsters and named them.  The kids did a great job with this.  We also worked on ABC ordering, sound spelling, and our addition.  The kids did a great job.   

It’s Report Card Time!

Today you may log onto Skyward and check your child’s grade card. Copies of the grade card will not be sent home.  You will need to log onto Skyward to check your child’s grade card.  If you do not know your log-ins you can call the Vermillion office at 722-0266 to get it.  I don’t have access to that information. Tomorrow I will award prizes to everyone who has had their grade card checked.  I will log onto Skyward to check this.   A packet will go home tonight with some of the assessments as well as detailed directions how to check your child’s grade card.  Let me know if you are having trouble!! 

P.S. Don’t forget our pick-up day for cookie dough is today.  You can pick it up from 3-8 p.m. in the wrestling room at Maize Middle (45th & Maize)

Have a great Monday!!

Welcome!

I am so excited to be starting a classroom blog. This is a new adventure for me. My goal is to share many of the things that we do here in the classroom.  I also hope to that this will help keep you up to date on what’s going on.   I have links available to many of the websites that we use here at school as well as parent resources. Please post your comments and feel free to share this with other family members.